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Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: John Harper on April 21, 2003, 10:30:57 AM

I've been inspired lately to do some fan art pieces for the indie RPG community, starting with my take on the core "image" for a few different games. After doing Universalis (http://www.shootingiron.com/feng/ps/alice_big_jsh.jpg) and Sorcerer (http://www.shootingiron.com/feng/ps/sorcerer_big_jsh.jpg), I decided to take a shot at Paladin.

Here's the result: http://www.shootingiron.com/feng/ps/paladin_jsh.jpg

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: Ben Morgan on April 21, 2003, 02:03:39 PM

Okay, that kicks so much ass that I had to immediately make it my wallpaper. Coolness.

-- Ben

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: Clinton R. Nixon on April 21, 2003, 02:18:51 PM

Holy shit.

John - you'll have to explain the techniques you use to mesh photographs so well to me someday. It's incredible.

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: Jonathan Walton on April 21, 2003, 02:20:45 PM

If you're trying to gain attention for your skills as an artist, John, you're doing a damn good job. While a great many people do the Photoshop/photography thing these days, your sense of composition is incredible. Very nice.

Would be my wallpaper too, except I've already got your Universalis piece up there.

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: J. Backman on April 21, 2003, 04:51:47 PM

Wow. 's all I can say.

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: Jared A. Sorensen on April 21, 2003, 06:54:07 PM

Huh.

Seen better.

Hmmph.

- J

*not really

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: Andrew Ciotti on April 21, 2003, 09:46:43 PM

outstanding

I mean just outstanding

Keep'em coming

Drew

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: John Harper on April 22, 2003, 01:15:59 AM

I gets my scrilla from Photoshop. :)

I'm glad you like the piece. There are more coming: for octaNe, Dust Devils, The Riddle of Steel, and Trollbabe.

Title: Wow!
Post by: rafial on April 22, 2003, 09:05:51 PM

Those are amazing...

Could you be persuaded to put up bigger versions of those images for those of us with larger desktops? :) (1024x768 or 1600x1200)

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: John Harper on April 23, 2003, 12:55:51 AM

Unfortunately, I don't have larger versions. My personal preference for a desktop image is to have a small 800x600 image in the middle of the desktop, with all of my file clutter around it. So, the original images were made at that size.

Also, I'm using stock photography found on the web, which is often very low-res and not suitable for larger compositions.

I just got a new PS filter that is supposed to help increase an image size by using fractalization, but I haven't tried it yet. If it works, I'll post links to the larger versions.

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: John Harper on April 23, 2003, 01:40:45 AM

Okay, I was able to resample the image up to 1024x768 and keep it looking decent.

http://www.shootingiron.com/feng/ps/paladin_1024_jsh.jpg (274k)

I'll do the others (Universalis and Sorcerer) shortly.

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: John Harper on April 24, 2003, 03:13:34 PM

New, larger versions of all of the indie RPG desktop images are now available here:

http://www.shootingiron.com/feng/forge/

Title: Thanks!
Post by: rafial on April 25, 2003, 01:48:45 AM

The enlarged images are lovely, and the Trollbabe one has me lying on my back kicking my heels in the air with pure joy!

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: ejh on April 25, 2003, 02:27:09 PM

Yeah, Rafial, but Trollbabes always do that to me.

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: tetsujin28 on March 17, 2004, 06:01:21 AM

Err...geez. Usually Photoshop work leaves me cold. But yours is stunning.

Title: Paladin Fan Art
Post by: joshua neff on March 17, 2004, 05:43:02 PM

Those are really damn brilliant. At least one of them will have to be my wallpaper at some point or another.

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